Season 5: Ep. 8 Freedom FROM Religion: The Right Not to Believe in a Nation of Faith

Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 8 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr.

Leigh Eric Schmidt.